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Hereby I support the nomination of Dirk Frigne
Am 2016-09-13 20:50, schrieb Jorge Sanz:
Forwarding nominations of Moritz Lennert and Gert-Jan van der Weijden
for Dirk Frigne.
Best
Jorge Sanz
CRO 2016
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Hello,
I would like to nominate Dirk Frigne (dirk.fri...@geosparc.com [1])
from
Belgium as a board member.
Dirk has entered the Board recently and has since worked hard on
advancing OSGeo interests and on pushing an agenda of
professionalizing OSGeo as an organisation. He was one of the
co-founders of OSGeo.be in Belgium and has been one of the leaders
of
the OSGeo-EU initiative which led to the creation of this new
chapter
and which hopefully will allow breaking the stronghold of
proprietary
software in EU institutions and allow the integration of more foss4g
in
European initiatives and programmes, by federating European actors
into networks.
He has a strong business perspective and thus ensures a voice for all
the small SMEs active in foss4g.
I feel that he has only just begun and that at his current rate of
pouring energy into OSGeo he will bring a lot to the community if he
is allowed to continue in the board.
Moritz
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Jorge Sanz
Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity.
---------- Mensaje reenviado ----------
De: "Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl"
<gert-...@osgeo.nl [2]>
Fecha: 12 sept. 2016 18:54
Asunto: Board nomination for Dirk Frigne
Para: <c...@osgeo.org [3]>
Cc:
I would like to nominate Dirk Frigne for the Board of Directors of
the OSGeo.org foundation.
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> Dirk has already been in the Board since January this year, as a
"substitute" after Jeff McKenna stepped down from the Board. Because
of this "split-term" he is to be re-elected this year already.
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> Dirk is not just formally -being one of OSGeos vice-presidents-
visible, but also in discussions and actions both in the Board (as
one
can tell by the Board mailing list) as well as outside the Board.
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> As a founder and CEO of Geosparc (well know of GeoMajas), Dirk
knows inside out whats going in doing business in an open source
ecosystem.
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> Besides that, his efforts for putting open source for geospatial
on
the European agenda forces respect.
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> And on a local scale, Dirk is as members of the Board of Directors
very much involved in the Belgian local chapter.
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> I think Dirk has proven in his first 8 month as a Board member
that
he is of great value of putting topics on the agenda that are very
meaningful for a greater outreach of OSGeo.org as an organisation,
and
of Open Source for Geospatial in general.
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> Although I do not always agree on Dirks opinions, I think this
ability to raise the right questions, combined with his broad
background and perspective continues to make Dirk a very valuable
Board member.
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> Kind regards,
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> Gert-Jan van der Weijden
Links:
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[1] mailto:dirk.fri...@geosparc.com
[2] mailto:gert-...@osgeo.nl
[3] mailto:c...@osgeo.org
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